dpkg-shlibdeps also fails when it can't find the library

diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl b/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl
index e1f791b33c2dd37e8387d6fb67256c0676f3c799..239e00a90efea0d1a482f603946c6c08370d8383 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl
+++ b/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ foreach my $file (keys %exec) {
     my %libfiles;
     foreach my $soname (@sonames) {
        my $file = my_find_library($soname, $obj->{RPATH}, $obj->{format});
-       warning("Couldn't find library $soname.") unless defined($file);
+       failure(sprintf(_g("couldn't find library %s (note: only packages with 'shlibs' files are looked into)."), $soname)) unless defined($file);
        $libfiles{$file} = $soname if defined($file);
     }
     my $file2pkg = find_packages(keys %libfiles);